After the October Revolution, through the efforts of Yelena Ertel, Alexander Ertel’s youngest daughter, the estate turned into the Ertelevo House of Writers, where Konstantin Paustovsky, Mikhail Prishvin, Alexey Novikov-Priboy, Olga Kozhukhova, Olga Kretova, Yury Goncharov and many other writers stayed.

The House of Writers was furnished with Alexander Ertel’s things. It had seven rooms and a hall. Along the walls of the hall, there were shelves with books and magazines from the writer’s library, and in the middle, there was a large rectangular table where visitors gathered for dinner. A park with lindens was the highlight of the House of Writers.

Both the park and the library made a great impression on Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, who vacationed in Ertelevo in 1946 and 1947. On August 12, 1947, he wrote to Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin,

In this rest house near Voronezh, Paustovsky both rested and worked. In his room, there was Ertel’s desk made of dark wood, where Paustovsky worked on translations of Slavic fairy tales and wrote a fairy tale “The Dense Bear” for the Murzilka magazine.

The Voronezh writer Yury Danilovich Goncharov described the furnishings of Paustovsky’s room as follows,